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Laura Cappelle
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Laura Cappelle is an arts writer and sociologist who lives in France. She has been the Financial Times’ Paris-based dance critic since 2010 and a regular contributor to The New York Times since 2017, writing a column on French theatre as well as culture features. She has contributed to the Guardian, Dancing Times, Pointe, Dance Magazine and the Globe and Mail, among other publications, and is an editorial consultant for CN D Magazine. An associate professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University since 2023, she has edited a French-language introduction to dance history, Nouvelle Histoire de la danse en Occident (Seuil, 2020), and co-authored its adaptation into a graphic novel (Une histoire dessinée de la danse, with the illustrator Thomas Gilbert, Seuil, 2024). She is also the author of Créer des ballets au XXIe siècle (CNRS Éditions, 2024) and an associate researcher with the CCN-Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin.
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